...s; but the habit dated back to the early fifties, and might not be shaken. We see her, therefore, in the summer afternoons, sitting at the piano with Florence, playing, Galatea, dry thy tears! Handel 's old tie-wig music, as she called his operas. Or, if her son were there, she would play accompaniments from the Messiah or Elijah ; rippling through the difficult music, transposing it, if nece...